Naive Signed 1938 Oil on Linen Veronica's Veil Painting hand-thrown ceramic vase as a whole

as a whole

so I carve some and play the fiddle

as perhaps a whole grocery list's worth is more than one needs

maybe a little watercolor too

Naive Signed 1938 Oil on Linen Veronica's Veil Painting hand-thrown ceramic vase as a wholeI presume this painting, signed Peter Murray and dated 1938, was done after one famous image or another of Veronica's Veil, that most venerated of Christian relics. (According to medieval legend, the veil belonged to a woman who took pity on Christ as he toiled with his burden of the cross to Golgotha. She gave Christ her kerchief to wipe his brow, and when he returned the cloth, his image miraculously had been impressed upon it.) I of course love its